[ajay]

Hello,

We have 2 IBM eservers p5 series. Currently for one server when we did a hard reboot we found that the code on the display remained at AA00E1F3. But it prompted nothing on the screen. Please note we are using hyper terminal service via a serial port.
This happened for a couple of tries. Then I placed a bootable CD (CD1 from installation CD pack) and again tried, this time it did prompted for admin password on screen. After this things are smooth.
To check if the solution applied was correct I removed the CD and did a reboot again and this time also I faced no problems.
Could you please help me to investigate and find root cause on what could have gone wrong during first couple of tries where we got a blank screen instead of the password prompt.

TIA
Ajay